The muddy hands of harvesters are grouped together after weeding a lettuce bed at the Many Hands Organic Farm in Barre, Mass., Wednesday July 22, 2009. The three-day Northeast Organic Farming Association, which that starts Friday, Aug. 7, 2009, is expected to draw a 1,500 people, continuing a pattern of growth that prompted the nonprofit organization to move the 35-year-old event from Hampshire College two years ago to the more spacious University of Massachusetts across town.
The muddy hands of harvesters are grouped together after weeding a lettuce bed at the Many Hands Organic Farm in Barre, Mass., Wednesday July 22, 2009. The three-day Northeast Organic Farming Association, which that starts Friday, Aug. 7, 2009, is expected to draw a 1,500 people, continuing a pattern of growth that prompted the nonprofit organization to move the 35-year-old event from Hampshire College two years ago to the more spacious University of Massachusetts across town.
